Catch for india-rubber shoes



UNITED sTATEs PATENT oEEroE.

NATHANIEL HAYWARD, OF COLCI-IESTER, CONNECTICUT.

CATCH FOR INDIA-RUBBER SHOES.

Specification of Letters Patent No.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, NATHANiEL HAYWARD, of Colchester, in the county of New London and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in the Manufacture of Rubber Overshoes, and that the following description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, hereinafter referred to, forms a full and exact specification of the same, wherein I have set forth the nature and principle of my said improvements, by which my invention may be distinguished from others of a similar class, together with such parts as I claim and desire to have secured to me by Letters Patent.

The igures of the accompanying drawings represent my improvements.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improved rubber overshoe. Fig. 2 is a central longitudinal vertical section of the same. Fig. 3 is a view showing the overshoe in detached portions.

The object of my invention is to so construct a rubber overshoe that the foot may be readily inserted or removed from the same at pleasure without using the hands at all, whereby the inconvenience usually experienced in putting on or taking off rubber overshoes may be avoided. My in1- proved rubber overshoe by which this result is obtained is manufactured with the quarter of the same composed of hard semihard compound the remainder of the shoe being made of the vulcanized india rubber ordinarily employed. The upper portion of the shoe may be suiiiciently cut away to allow the foot to enter readily and the stitiness imparted to the heel and quarter of the shoe by the hard or semi-hard compound obviates the necessity of using the hands in putting it on. The shoe is held in place so as to prevent its slipping on the foot by means of a spring at the heel that presses against the heel of the under boot or shoe.

In the accompanying drawings o; a represent that part of the shoe which is made of the ordinary vulcanized india rubber. The

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quarters b or all of the rear part of the shoe extending from about the center of the shank and including the heel is made of hard or semi hard compound prepared in the manner usually practiced. The opening of the shoe is suliciently large to allow the foot to be inserted readily and the stiness imparted to the quarter by the hard or semi hard compound permits the foot to be inserted in the shoe without using the hands. A spring c with a catch CZ presses when the shoe is put on against the heel of the under shoe or boot, and serves to retain the overshoe in its place and prevent its slipping at the heel. rIhe spring o is furnished with a projection or lip e, which eX- tends out through the heel as shown in the drawings. The overshoe can be readily taken off without using the hands by simply pressing with one foot upon the projection or lip which will thereby release the catch CZ from the under shoe or boot.

I am awa-re that a pointed screw-catch has been used for coniining over-shoes to inner shoes by engaging the point with the heel of the inner shoe or boot, and this arrangementI wish to disclaim. It should be here suggested that the spring need not be metallic necessarily but may, with the eX- terior lip, be made of india rubber in the form of some of the various compounds with the same.

Nhat I claim as my invention and desire to have secured to me by Letters Patent isd The use of a steel, rubber or other kind of spring catch of any proper shape in the heel of an india rubber over-shoe or clog having a projection or lip extending out horizontally or through the quarter as specitied, whereby the overshoe is prevented from slipping at the heel, and is susceptible of being disengaged from the under-boot or shoe without using the hands herein above set forth.

NATHANIEL HAYWARD. 1Witnesses EsRA LINCOLN, HENRY F. DURANT.

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